Never having covered a Masters, has this been a policy in place in previous years?

(It's ridiculous. I'm just wondering why this hasn't come up before 2011).

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I posted in the Masters running thread before seeing this one. In my day, no one went past a particular point in the locker room ... there was a guard standing between that anteroom and the locker room proper. At no point in the week did you get into the locker room proper. Further, after the actual competitive rounds you either got the players in the interview room or you caught them outside the scorer's tent. Would assume that's the same way today.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Masters officials apologized to sports columnist Tara Sullivan of The Bergen (N.J.) Record on Sunday evening after a security guard denied her entry to a locker room for a post-tournament interview.
Augusta National spokesman Steve Ethun said the guard acted improperly in stopping Sullivan, since club policy is to provide equal access to all reporters. The club has no female members, but several female reporters at the tournament confirmed they had made numerous trips to the locker room for interviews in the past without incident.
Sullivan was among a crowd of reporters following third-round leader Rory McIlroy from the course into the clubhouse after his collapse in the final round.
“He just said women were not allowed and there was no official in sight,” Sullivan said. By the time she located McIlroy’s manager, the interview had been completed.
Ethun said the club hires a number of people to work the tournament and the guard was apparently unaware of the equal-access policy.
“It should not have happened,” he said. “We will work as hard as we can to make sure it does not happen again.”

One of the reasons why media organizations need to stop covering the event. It's just a tournament in the end. Why are media organizations so afraid of ANGC? I know TV is because CBS and ESPN operate on one-year contracts.